This thread is a bit of a carry over from my almost finished thread of their mothers (link in signature).
Mothers are a BrandX polycross- F2 WH x WW pollinated with BubbleGum.
4 clones: 2 are smaller christmas tree shape, but with long lower side branches. The other 2 are from a monster mother that I named Melanie, after a smoking hot bartender. The irony is the real Melanie barely hits 5ft tall: her namesake would be taller had I not bent the top 12" on a right angle. I needed to do that to make sure the other 2 smaller plants got decent light, too
I usually take pics from the side, but took this from the top as they were outside the tent while I dumped week-old nutes.
As you can see, foliage is full, full, full
Root ball pic. My method does not produce large roots, which I find to be unnecessary. I also trim them to force more roots to develop near the top. Each ball is slightly large than a baseball
No, they are not growing in an opaque container. This is just to hold them while dumping old nutes, and makes it easier to take pics
LEDs
2 custom- made UFO 90s were gifted from A-51 (thanks again Jeff!). One is NW (5000K) the other WW (3500K). They are slightly angled toward the middle of the 4 clones. The combination of NW + WW equal ~ 4500K, which is a very good spectrum to optimize both bushiness and stretching.
After a couple weeks, I added 2 commercial 4 ft led tubes- one 20w @ 5000K and one 18w @ 3000K. The plants are seeing ~ 2ft from each tube in addition to the 2 UFOs. I can remove the 5000K tube if I want more stretch, but keeping both until I harvest in the taller tent upstairs
A-51 has a new, all white, 3750K panel, which I hope to have soon. I need to move these to my large tent (where the mothers are ~ 7 days from harvest). My HP Bubbler is 35 lpm 4 head + 4 large Oxystones, provides tons of DOated nutes, but in my upstairs system each plant is in an Air Pot: nutrients are fed from the top using 6" HydroHalo Rings
Grow medium is ~ 2/3 polished river rock, which is fast draining, over 1/3 lava rock, which holds some moisture between feedings. This allows me to feed ~ every half hour, which makes for explosive growth
These clones are much fuller than my last from the same genetics. I attribute that to higher quality leds. Last clones I had a total of ~ 115w, all commercial leds. This time ~ 200w, 90% supplied by the 2 UFOs
Nutes
I use Hydroponic-Research VEG+BLOOM, a one part complete dry formula, which was recently improved. These clones are the beneficiary of the improved formula. Current ppms ~ 250
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Mothers are a BrandX polycross- F2 WH x WW pollinated with BubbleGum.
4 clones: 2 are smaller christmas tree shape, but with long lower side branches. The other 2 are from a monster mother that I named Melanie, after a smoking hot bartender. The irony is the real Melanie barely hits 5ft tall: her namesake would be taller had I not bent the top 12" on a right angle. I needed to do that to make sure the other 2 smaller plants got decent light, too
I usually take pics from the side, but took this from the top as they were outside the tent while I dumped week-old nutes.
As you can see, foliage is full, full, full
Root ball pic. My method does not produce large roots, which I find to be unnecessary. I also trim them to force more roots to develop near the top. Each ball is slightly large than a baseball
No, they are not growing in an opaque container. This is just to hold them while dumping old nutes, and makes it easier to take pics
LEDs
2 custom- made UFO 90s were gifted from A-51 (thanks again Jeff!). One is NW (5000K) the other WW (3500K). They are slightly angled toward the middle of the 4 clones. The combination of NW + WW equal ~ 4500K, which is a very good spectrum to optimize both bushiness and stretching.
After a couple weeks, I added 2 commercial 4 ft led tubes- one 20w @ 5000K and one 18w @ 3000K. The plants are seeing ~ 2ft from each tube in addition to the 2 UFOs. I can remove the 5000K tube if I want more stretch, but keeping both until I harvest in the taller tent upstairs
A-51 has a new, all white, 3750K panel, which I hope to have soon. I need to move these to my large tent (where the mothers are ~ 7 days from harvest). My HP Bubbler is 35 lpm 4 head + 4 large Oxystones, provides tons of DOated nutes, but in my upstairs system each plant is in an Air Pot: nutrients are fed from the top using 6" HydroHalo Rings
Grow medium is ~ 2/3 polished river rock, which is fast draining, over 1/3 lava rock, which holds some moisture between feedings. This allows me to feed ~ every half hour, which makes for explosive growth
These clones are much fuller than my last from the same genetics. I attribute that to higher quality leds. Last clones I had a total of ~ 115w, all commercial leds. This time ~ 200w, 90% supplied by the 2 UFOs
Nutes
I use Hydroponic-Research VEG+BLOOM, a one part complete dry formula, which was recently improved. These clones are the beneficiary of the improved formula. Current ppms ~ 250
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